Reserve your spot at the 2020 North American Gas Forum, a forum for professionals across the natural gas value chain to network with senior industry leaders, regulators, and experts. The 3-day event, packed with speakers and virtual networking sessions, is hosted by our partner, networking facilitator Energy Dialogues LLC.
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Also, don't miss the Clean Capitalist Leadership Council's 4th Annual Meeting, this Thursday, September 24, 2020. Register here!
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Energy Density & Land Use |
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Question 2: Do energy density and land-use environmental impacts need to be a larger part of the conversation on climate change and environmental issues? If so, how? Do you see nuclear power as an important part of the solution?
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"Land area is at a premium in states such as California. We must include energy density and land-use environmental impacts in the energy planning and evaluation process. Even more important is the non-equivalence of inherently intermittent energy sources such as solar.... These are all reasons why nuclear power must be part of the solution." - Gene Nelson, Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc.
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"Land-use management is critical—as the Western fires and community flooding in the heartland demonstrate. But the consumption of land for generation of renewable electricity is an absurdly small part of the problem. We simply need to use land—whenever we convert it from functioning as an ecological service area—efficiently...." - Carl Pope, Sierra Club (former)
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"Yes, energy density & land-use environmental impacts do need to be a larger part of the conversation. They matter in two ways. One is the direct environmental impact of high land use and disruption of habitat. That includes the heavy concrete and steel footprint for wind towers [and] the mining impact.... Nuclear power... has a much smaller environmental footprint...." - Roger Arnold, Silverthorn Institute
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"...Solar can be on rooftops [and] parking lots, and wind can generate off shore as its next big growth spurt [where] land impacts are much less.... New nuclear plants will save many-fold less carbon per dollar than competing carbon-free renewable resources, in proportion to their relative costs...."
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Publications in the OurEnergyLibrary |
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Columbia; Global CCS Institute
September 22, 2020
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Smart Electric Power Alliance
September 2020
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Update from Congress
New Legislation
Thurs, Sept 17 -
Wed, Sept 16 -
Tues, Sept 15 -
Hearings
Wed, Sept 16 - 2 hearings from Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources:
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When: Mon-Fri, Sept 21-25
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When: Mon-Sun, Sept 21-27
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When: Thurs, Sept 24, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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When: Wed, Sept 30, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
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When: Tues-Thurs, Oct 20-22
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